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WC 1724 & WC 715 working the local out of Superior in the Spring of 1990, note the DM&IR in the siding at Ambridge on the old Soo Line
The Wisconsin State Line -- Seen from Turtle Creek, near a switching yard in South Beloit.
This is just east of the confluence of Turtle Creek and the Rock River.
These tracks cut right through the spot where a trading settlement started, which formed the basis of Beloit, Wisconsin. Some day the bike path (in background, upper right) will meet up with a bike path in South Beloit that connects with other bike paths, and leads to Rockford or North Boone and other places... possibly as far as NIU in Dekalb.
Mike took a few photos of waterfalls when we visited Northern Wisconsin in the fall this year.
I haven't been using the camera all that much with the remodeling going on next door. All the pine trees are gone, and it is a muddy mess to look out and see....all my backyard visitors are finding new places to visit.
Wisconsin Badgers fans cheer during the Big Ten Football Championship NCAA football game against the Nebraska Cornhuskers Saturday, December 1, in Indianapolis. The Badgers won 70-31. (Photo by David Stluka)
Much like an IMAX, a 280 degree screen brings to life real world scenarios designed to put a four-person fire team made up of a driver, gunner, rifleman and troop commander through the paces of an actual convoy mission. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Dan Richardson.)
This property was located at 'Hurleytown"; A name that has stuck because of the fact that a man named Timothy Hurley operated a mill at that point. To-day it is South Side, and previous to the consolidation of Centralia and Grand Rapids it was called South Centralia.
This site on the river had falls that created some head and constituted an easily developed water power.
A. B. Sampson and Reuben C. Lyon built the first saw mill on this location in 1848, but did not complete their application to enter this land until August 16, 1853 when they completed the entry of Govt. Lots 1 and 2 Sec. 24-22-5.
In 1854 A. B. Sampson and wife Jane conveyed their interest to Reuben C. Lyon. In 1856, Lyon sold the property to Timothy Burley and Hugh Burnes. Evidently Burley and Burnes struck some tough
financial weather for the property was sold by the sheriff to John Rablin in 1869. John Rablin added a pail and tub factory in 1871. He successfully operated all his mill properties until he had financial trouble and all his property was acquired by Landauer, Hopkins and Friend of Milwaukee, in 1879. They sold it to Henry Mann and in 1886 Mann sold it to the newly organized company "The Centralia Pulp & Water Power Co. "
This marked a new chapter in the use of water power on the Wisconsin River. After they built their first pulp mill in 1887, they experimented with the water and finally decided that they could use it for making paper. Appleton mill men had said that there was too much vegetable matter in the water, but that was before the days of taking almost any kind of water and processing it for paper making purposes.
In 1901 the first paper machine was installed and two years later they added another machine.
Among the incorporators of the Centralia Pulp and Water Power Company were J. D. Witter, Frank Garrison, E. B. Rossier, N. Johnson & Co, Jones & Nash, Daly & Sampson, Chas. Briere, F. J. Wood and Caroline Rossier. Feb. 16, 1886.
